Another reported rape near Harvard

Police: Female assaulted late Tuesday Night

Police are investigating another reported rape near Harvard University in the area of Oxford and Kirkland Streets. Police said the incident happened on Tuesday sometime after 11:00 p.m. but the victim first reported the rape to Somerville Police Friday.

If anyone has any information regarding this incident, you are asked to contact the Harvard University Police Department’s Criminal Investigation Division at 617-495-1796 or the Cambridge Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division at 617-349-3370.

Last week, a woman reported to university police she was raped in Harvard Yard at about 3:15 a.m. Friday. The woman said she was grabbed as she entered the Yard through the Johnston Gate and was pulled behind Massachusetts Hall and attacked, police said.

Harvard Police Department public information officer Steven Catalano told WCVB news partner Wicked Local Cambridge the descriptions of the two assailants do not match. "The investigation is in its preliminary stages, but the descriptions of the assailants do not match,” Catalano said.

Campus police said they have increased the number of officers and uniformed security guards patrolling in and around the Yard and the surrounding area.